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I am listening to "America's #1 Band" right now, and goddamn if that title ain't the plain and simple truth.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Atomic Mr. Basie is the shit. Pretty much the definition of swing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

I gotta double lp on Roulette that I haven't been able to listen to for years, since my turntable up and croaked. It's a side each of the Basie band from different eras with different vocalists - Tony Bennett, Sara Vaughn, Joe Williams, and Billy Eckstine. I have it in my lap right now, and desperately want to cue up the Eckstine side, but can't.

Waaaaaaah.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

All bow down to the All-American Rhythm Section.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Walter Page!

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

(Chicago) Jo(nathan David Samuel) Jones!

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Freddie Green!

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

you hear the three ascending notes, you know who it is: definintion of a player

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 27 November 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Best three ascending notes in history, probably.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 November 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

D-F-C
Eb-Gb-C
E-G-C

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 November 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

I have been listening to Count Basie all week! I saw the Count Basie Orchestra after Count Basie had died and it was even wonderful then! My dad introduced me to Tom Harrell that night and I thought that he was brain damaged, but he only talked that way because of the medication he took for his schizophrenia. I found this out later. Tom Harrell is fucking amazing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 November 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Plink-plink.

― mcd (mcd), Sunday, 27 November 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

Splank.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 27 November 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

baBLINK

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 27 November 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't agree, but Gunther Schuller has a real interesting dissenting opinion on Basie's piano playing--he thinks Basie uses the same devices over and over and is mannered in his minimalism--in his "Swing Era" book. I don't agree, really, but I see his point. The Basie autobio with Albert Murray is a classic piece of American prose, too.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 27 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

http://vimeo.com/54881947

greil marcus on beat artist jay defeo, with a tie-in to basie's 'one o'clock jump'

long but totally worth it

― j., Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:46 (twelve years ago)

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